Solution To Crime In South Africa

[Chatmaster]

I would love to respond to your ideas but I believe that the real problem is located within the traditions that have been grown within the mentality of a large majority of South Africans. There are several things that needs to be fixed before we get to a realistic solution for crime and imo it consists out of several steps that needs to be taken, some simultaneously. But I would like to expand on this when I have more time.

• Instill a new culture whereby nothing is for free but are rather worked for.
• Compassion and understanding for other people
• Undo the damage of BEE and AA within the justice system, from the SAPS to the Prisons
• Political nutrality within the SAPS
• Improved training and discipline within the Police
• Better training and improved discipline within the Metro Police forces
• Better selection of leadership within the Police and Metro Police forces
• Proper border control
• An absolute ban on employing political alies within senior positions of the SAPS, our Police Commissioner is a freaking teacher and doesn't belong in his position
• A VERY serious look at getting our SAPS training back up where it was 20 years ago starting at the SAPS College in Pretoria
• NO political interference witin any Police force, they are supposed to be politically neutral
• Honest and open reflection of the true stats of crime within the country
• Improved Firearm regulation and required training for licensed gun owners
• The acceptance of the FACT that South Africa has a unique crime situation and that the true experts is located locally and not abroad. No other country, Not the US, AUS, UK, NZ etc can teach us much about crime, we are in many regards unique as we have the most aggressive crimes in the free modern world.

Every day there is:

• 50 Murders
• 51 Residential Robberies
• 76 Rapes
• 41 Car Hijackings

The fact remains that only

• 40% of all crimes reaches the courts
• 68% of Rapes never reaches the courts
• Only 5% of rape cases ends with a conviction
• 61% of Murder cases never goes to court
• Only 11% of murder cases ends with a conviction
• 89% of Agrevated robbery cases never goes to court! ONLY 3% ends with a conviction!!!!

You tell me where the problem lies!

The list is very long and not nearly complete and I would love to expand on this some time.